Course Number 59

Plant Operator Series - Equipment

13 hours of instruction 

Format: Programmed Instruction Self-study

Price: $50.00


Basic concepts of plant operating equipment and some of its hardware: an introduction to vessels such as tanks and columns or towers, including packing, distributors, and process flow; basic principles of positive displacement pumps, centrifugal pumps, reciprocating pumps, and compressors; fundamentals of heat exchange, including heat exchangers and steam trap principles; the main parts of a valve and an introduction to many types of valves.
In the last section of the course, the trainee follows a process flow using most of the equipment discussed in the course.
Prerequisites - Knowledge of basic physics (Course Number 49).

 

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Course Number 49 - Fundamentals of Basic Physics

 

Course Number 58 - Basic Chemistry

 

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